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Thanks VSLEWIS...I pretty much ended up writing a little find batch utility to do what you said. I've never done anything with TP macros before. Would someone be willing to give me a pointer or two?

My'findstr' results file looks something like this:

\\machine1\share\foo1.txt: <string i was ...

Thanks but it's not really a desirable option for me. It would be too many extra steps that i'd have to take across many directory roots, each of which could have hundreds of files in them. I also need to use unc paths because the directories live on multiple servers.

my directory list would look ...

thanks for your help but I should have explained the problem with a little more detail. Unfortunately using the @filelist.txt technique doesn't allow for wildcards in the file. So using your example, I am unable to do the following:

Code:
Find what: yourString
In files: @filelist.txt
In folder ...

Is there any way to do a "Find in Files" across multiple directory roots?

For example, looking for the string "foo" in C:\files and D:\files

The "in folder" text box does not seem to like multiple paths. I tried delimiting them with commas, semi-colons, and spaces but with no luck.